Nassau Comptroller Maragos is online, but far, far away

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Greece had nothing to do with it, aides to Nassau Comptroller George Maragos claim.

Maragos conducted a Virtual Town Hall meeting for two hours Monday, and there seemed to be an inordinate lag between the time it took people to post their online questions and the time it took Maragos to respond. A question on the size of the county’s budget gap, for example, was answered seven minutes later.

Maragos aides said any problems were due to the first-time nature of the online chat, and Maragos’ need to be precise in his answers. Nothing about Greece.